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Q: What happened to Mimi’s Cafe on Woodruff Road, and are there any plans to do something with the building?

Amy in short: Mimi’s Cafe said the shuttering of the Greenville restaurant more than a year ago wasn’t about how the business was doing, but the precipitous closing left lots of unanswered questions and one available building, now owned by an Upstate restaurateur.

A bit more: Mimi’s Cafe, located at the Shops at Greenridge on Woodruff Road, closed without notice in July 2014.

“Usually when a closing like that does occur, it is done fairly quickly,” said a spokeswoman for the chain of French-inspired restaurants.

Within days of the restaurant’s closing, the building and 1.3-acre property were sold to Spero Eliopoulos, owner of the popular Coach House restaurant in Simpsonville, for $1.8 million.

“The agreement was that I’d buy it, and they’re going to close,” he said.

“Since then, they’ve been restructuring the business. The decision about the Greenville location was strictly... part of the restructuring,” the spokeswoman said. “It was a really good location.”

Eliopoulos declined to disclose details about his plans for the building, though he said it is in good shape and he has not done any work to it yet.

“I’m making some plans,” he said. “We’re in the works.”

The city of Greenville said there are currently no applications under review for the property.

Eliopoulos and a business partner opened the country meal-centric Coach House in 1991.

Mimi’s Cafe currently operates 102 locations in 18 states, a decrease from the 119 restaurants they had a year ago. Concentrated primarily in the western states, Mimi’s Greenville location opened around the beginning of 2006 and was the only one in South Carolina. There are currently no plans to reopen in the state, the restaurant spokeswoman said.

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